Combined mop and scrub-brush.



No. 729,581. PATENTED JUNE 2 1903.

. A. SLHELD.

COMBINED MOP AND SORUB BRUSH.

N0 MODEL.

W i Willi H XQRIMWQ UNITED STATES Patented une 2, 1903.

PATENT OFFIcE.

AUGUST S. HELD, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 729,581, dated June 2,1903. Application filed October 10,1902. $erial No. 126,685. (No model.)

T0 ctZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST S. HELD, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at .Freeport, in tliecounty of Stephenson and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in aCombined Mop and Scrub-Brush, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has forits object the production of combined mops andscrub-brushes so contrived and arranged that they may be used both insuch combination and separately; and it consists of certain new anduseful features of construction and combinations-10f parts especiallydevised to those ends, all as hereinafter fully described, andspecifically pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

which form a part of this-application, Figure 1 is a top plan view of acombined mop and scrub-brush embodying my invention and adapted to beused for both mopping and scrubbing. Fig. 2 is a section at'the dottedline 2 3 in Fig. 1 of parts there shown. Fig. 3 is a like section, alsoat such dotted line 2 3 in Fig. 1, showing the movable jaw of themop-head pushed away from its fixed jaw by means of its controllingbushing or nut in order that the brush-attaching plate thereof with itsbrush may be detached therefrom. Fig. 4 is an isometrical detail of thebrushattaching plate.

A is a fixed clampingjaw provided with a handle-socket A and having achannel A extending along lengthwise of the lower and straight edgethereof.

B is a movable clamping-jaw parallel with the fixed jaw A, having itsends B" extending and converging rearwardly and united by means of theinteriorly threaded nut B through which such ends B are inserted.

G is an exteriorly-threaded bushing turned into and operating theinteriorly-threaded nut 13 and the movable jaw B connected therewith.

D is ahandle inserted through thebushing C and nut B into thesocket A inthe fixed jaw A, whereinto it is secured.

E is a brush-attaching plate having a flute E formed therein lengthwisethereof and adapted to fit into the channel A in the fixed jaw A and toadmit the movable jaw O.

F is a furcated spring fast to the brush-attaching plate E and adaptedto bestride and clasp the handle D or socket A of :the fixed jaw A.

G is a scrub-brush secured to the brush-attaching plate by means ofscrews-G.

H is a mop inserted between the jaws A and B.

The movable jaw B is clamped against the plate E and mop H by rotatingthe bushing C by means of the ears 0 thereon.

By loosening the jaw 13 and pressing downward upon the plate E the brushG may be disengaged from the mop-head, thus leaving the mop and brush tobe used separately, if desired.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a utensil of the class described, in combination,a fixedclamping-jaw,having a channel extending along lengthwise of the lowerand straight edge thereof and providedwith a handle-socket, a movableclamping-jawparallel with the'fixed jaw, releasable means for clampingthe movable jaw against the fixed jaw, ahandleinserted into the socketin the AUGUST S. HELD.

Witnesses:

JOHN M. IRWIN, W. H. J. STRATTON.

